Research Data Management
Introduction
Anne Spalding
11.12.2013
Session Outline
• Context for research data management
• Activities exploring research data and its importance
• Summary, questions and feedback
Learning Outcomes
• Describe the complex and diverse nature of research data in the visual and creative arts
• Discuss the nature of research data in your field of enquiry
• State the importance of your research data
Context
• Funders
• Open Access
• Research practice
What is Research Data?
• Introduction
• Activity 1– Examples of research data…
• Feedback
Importance?
Activity 2• Why is research data is important to you?
• Why is research data important to your institution?
• Why is research data important to those outside your institution?
Importance?
• You – evidence of your research process and method– Increased discoverability, visibility and citation– in the future may also provide a cultural record
• Institution– research data is expensive to create and therefore a valuable asset– supports external assessment exercises
• Funders– integral part of the research process– Others could be interested in either re-using it or working collaboratively with you– most now have policies which require the research data to be a part of the
research
Defining Research Data
Activity 3
• Critically review the definition of research data in the visual arts
• Define research data in terms of your own field of inquiry
Defining Research Data
“Evidence which is used or created to generate new knowledge and interpretations. ‘Evidence’ may be intersubjective or subjective; physical or emotional; persistent or ephemeral; personal or public; explicit or tacit; and is consciously or unconsciously referenced by the researcher at some point during the course of their research. Research data maybe collated in a structured way to create a dataset to substantiate a particular interpretation analysis or argument. A dataset may or may not lead to a research output, which regardless of method of presentations, is a planned public statement of new knowledge or interpretation.” (Garrett : 2013)
Further Information
• http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/• http://www.dcc.ac.uk/• http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-lifecycle-model • http://kapturmrd01.eventbrite.co.uk/• http://www.projectcairo.org/• http://www.research.ucreative.ac.uk/1054/• http://www.vads4r.ac.uk/kaptur/• http://www.vads4r.vads.ac.uk/p/welcome.html• http://www.vads4r.vads.ac.uk/p/online-learning.html• http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/428241/Researcher-Development-
Framework.html • http://vocab.bris.ac.uk/data/glossary
Assessment
• ORANGE POST-IT– One thing you have learned so far…
• PINK POST-IT– One thing you would like to learn….
Thank you
for listening
and participating
Anne Spalding
Learning Outcomes?
• Describe the complex and diverse nature of research data in the visual arts
• Discuss the nature of research data in your subject area
• State the importance of your research data